David Creelman

Toronto

Writer and Contributor at Freelance

Living at the frontiers of managing talent and culture

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The Power of Predictive Hiring: How AI is Revolutionizing the Recruitment Process

1 month ago | ere.net | Jim Stroud |Jason Pistulka |David Creelman |Dmytro Spilka

Mar 14, 2025Interview prediction, also known as interview forecasting or candidate selection predictive analytics, refers to the use of data and statistical models to predict the likelihood of a candidate being a good fit for a job position based on their interview performance. This technique is becoming increasingly popular among HR professionals and hiring managers as it helps to streamline the hiring process, reduce unconscious bias, and make more informed decisions.
A closer look at CV screening AI

Dec 6, 2024 | tlnt.com | David Creelman

Dec 6, 2024Anyone who works in the talent acquisition department of a large organization will know full well that they may receive hundreds of thousands of CVs in any given year. They may also know that screening these CVs is time-consuming, tedious, and exhausting. Sometime, the result of this is that an entire recruiting pipeline might be held up just because the sifting process is taking so long.
Making sense of AI listening tools

Nov 22, 2024 | tlnt.com | David Creelman

Nov 22, 2024Employee surveys have dominated employee listening for so long now that we have almost learned to overlook how unsatisfactory they really are. If you’ve run into questions such as “On a scale of 1 to 5, do you feel that your contributions are appreciated?” where the real answer is a complex “It depends” then you know what I mean. AI tools, however, offer the opportunity to finally change the way we do employee listening.
Automation democratization vs. governance – the key question we need to solve | TLNT

Nov 15, 2024 | tlnt.com | David Creelman

Nov 15, 2024We are entering a new era of automation and HR should be prepared to seize the opportunity. But, this new era will depend on a new mindset and a new relationship between IT and HR. Fortunately, shifting mindsets and forging relationships should be HR’s strong suit. What’s new in automation? Automation has been rolling along quite nicely for the past few decades, so what’s new? The most important new thing is that it is becoming much easier for non-specialists to build automations.
Can your digital twin handle your meetings?

Oct 4, 2024 | tlnt.com | David Creelman

Oct 4, 2024Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has speculated that in five or six year’s time we will all have AI “digital twins,”To just pause a minute – these are people that are so capable they can attend meetings for us. To get a feel of what this might be like, check out this video of Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, having a back-and-forth conversation with his own AI digital twin.
Does your people analytics team need a consultant?

Sep 27, 2024 | tlnt.com | David Creelman

Sep 27, 2024There is often frustration in people analytics teams because there is often something of a perceived disconnect occurring between them and the rest of the business. One solution commentators suggest to address this disconnect is to create a role of “people analytics consultant.”But is this a good idea? Before I answer this, we first need to step back a bit, and look at the problem in the round:Why is there a disconnect between people analytics teams and the rest of the business?
What OpenAI’s o1 Means for Learning AI

Sep 15, 2024 | linkedin.com | David Creelman

Another bitter lesson? OpenAI’s latest model is called o1 and it has some troubling implications for those learning to use AI because it means that what we learned last month may no longer be useful. Learning prompt engineering One of the new skills that came to prominence with the launch of ChatGPT is prompt engineering. Essentially that’s the skill of asking good questions (“prompts”) to the AI to get a good answer.
Analytics needs data lakes – but they will also disappoint us | TLNT

Sep 13, 2024 | tlnt.com | David Creelman

Sep 13, 2024People are usually attracted to analytics because they love using powerful tools to find patterns in data. Sadly, when they get on the job, they do not spend much time doing anything like data science. Instead, they spend the bulk of their time organizing and cleaning data to get it in a form where they can do at least a little analysis.
HR’s new talent headache: The rise of the ‘career downsizer’

Sep 4, 2024 | tlnt.com | Peter Crush |Jim Priebe |David Creelman |Mark Murphy

Sep 4, 2024Could something unusual be happening in organizations today? Are Americans looking to beat the stress they have in their jobs by voluntarily moving themselves into roles that are less demanding? Could this lead to fewer people wanting demanding jobs? According to career coach Jasmine Escalera, and career expert at MyPerfectResume, there’s mounting evidence this trend is indeed happening.
AI research is evolving exciting new methodologies relevant to HR

Sep 2, 2024 | tlnt.com | David Creelman

Sep 2, 2024This may sound obvious, but if artificial intelligence is to become a powerful agent in organizations, then we will all need to be sure that the AI being used is aligned with human values. Determining this isn’t easy though. One group researching this topic however, is the Meaning Alignment Institute, based in Europe. What interests me as an HR pro, is that the methods it is developing to support AI alignment may be relevant to HR, particularly for employee listening.